Sunnyvale was a pre-War city in the former American state of California and is a mentioned-only location in Fallout: New Vegas.
Background[]
Around October 2077, Robert House commissioned a manufacturer in the city to create the platinum chip, intending to upgrade his suite of defense systems at the Lucky 38 in Las Vegas ahead of the predicted apocalypse. Though he had planned for the chip to be printed on October 22 and hand-delivered the next day, according to House, he miscalculated the exact time the bombs were going to drop, resulting in the chip still being present at the manufacturer when Sunnyvale was destroyed by nuclear weapons.
Following the Great War, after he awoke from his coma in 2138, House spent great amounts of both time and caps looking for the chip, hiring scavengers and cleanup crews to scour the city's ruins for years trying to recover it.[1][2] Sometime before October 2281, the chip was successfully found in Sunnyvale and House began making arrangements for it to be brought to him in New Vegas by way of courier transport through the Mojave Express service.
Appearances[]
Sunnyvale is mentioned only in Fallout: New Vegas.
Behind the scenes[]
- Sunnyvale is based on the real-world Sunnyvale, California, one of the cities that comprise the Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Despite being a technological hub in the real world, according to Joshua Sawyer, the fictional Sunnyvale was intended to be a reference to the 1983 film WarGames.[3]
References[]
- ↑ The Courier: "Why didn't the Platinum Chip arrive on time?"
Robert House: "The Platinum Chip was printed in Sunnyvale, California on October 22nd, 2077 - the day before the Great War. It was to have been delivered by courier the following afternoon... but by then, the world had ended. The Chip contained vital software upgrades, but not just for my Securitrons. Every aspect of the missile defense grid would have been upgraded, too. Given that I had to make do with buggy software, the outcome could have been worse. I nearly died as it was."
(Robert House's dialogue) - ↑ Robert House: "Such a small thing, isn't it? And yet so... capacious. So very dear. Decades of hiring salvagers out west to search for this little relic in the ruins of a place called Sunnyvale. Back then, anyway. That's where the Chip was printed, on October 22, 2077. It was to have been hand-delivered to me here, at the Lucky 38, the next day. But the bombs fell first. Suffice it to say, the delivery was never made."
(Robert House's dialogue) - ↑ J.E. Sawyer on Formspring